For me it was Star Blazers. Couldn't watch it enough! Then Battle of the Planets. (Yes, I'm American.) But what really yanked me into Anime was the DVD six episode Sol Bianca. Blew me away.. Great gateway anime. Then came Toonami. The Anime genre just gets better and better over the decades, and I still love it.

This is soo hard. When i was younger, I used to rent anime cause i like the girls long hair. hjhahahah it didnt matter if i hated the anime. but, i watched sailor moon but didnt really pay attention (only for the hair). and i was really into Spirited Away. I think the anime I watched that got me SUPER into anime, etc, was Fruits Baskets.

FLCL on adult swim/cartoon network
the second one was lain which my friend had the first dvd, after that I went out and bought all of the dvds right away.

Lain is still one of my favorites to this day, same with FLCL.

It's also pretty interesting to see all the different shows that got people started on anime... seems like a lot of people got their start watching on Toonami or other television outlets. Kinda wonder if Toonami coming back is going to get more people interested in anime in general or if maybe sites like Crunchyroll or Funimation will get some their start now.

My first anime which i didn't know where anime had to be Dragonball, DBZ, DBGT. However what really got me started was one night. I was sneaking staying up all night in my bed. Well i was watching this one anime on adultswim. I absolutely loved it, however i can still to this day not remember what the name of the show is called or what it was like. I just remember some girl with blue hair loving some guy but sneaking into his room at night and killing him. And i think she had a tail. That's all i can remember but i wish i knew more hah. Anyways back on topic. While i was watching Adult Swim i also saw this anime called Eureka 7 i saw like two episodes from it which where like episode 14 and 15. I was instantly hooked. I loved it so much i spent the last month. (i was probably 8 - 11 at this time memory not the best when i was little) searching for this anime online. and finally found a website to watch all the episodes. First it was youtube then it was on an anime site. From their i knew it was anime and started to watch anime like Gundam Seed, Gundam Wing and all that great stuff. Eureka 7 really moved me and changed my life. So that's why it's my profile picture. Anyways sorry for making you read an essay. I felt the need to rant on about my life for a while hah. Btw if that anime i described sounds familiar at all you should tell me so i can look into it hah thanks.